The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-19
sACRAMRHYO.'
It was an odd name for girl---Sacra.

of cotton wood tree and lazily dropped
her pail into the water.
ut ought to have been given to boy
II it was fit name to give anybody"
she said quite aloud. "But I'm more
boy than girl, anyway"
This fact was added rather bitterly,
Us she looked at 'her brown, rough
hands end her bare ankles, and thought
e. tie ".o IS work" she had to do.
And it was hard to believe that this
was the best kind of life for young
girl like Sacramento. Here she lived
alone, for her father was down ct the
mouth of the canon all day The gar
den work she was obliged to do, and the
care Of the cattle fell upon her. II was
not often that she saw any person but
her father, although now and then, in
spite Of herself, she came in contact
with the rude men of the mining camp
up above.
Yet Sacramento had her dream, one
that she scarcely dared own," but it
came to her often as she went about her
work.
She knew that down at Santa Barba-
IA and in the towns along the coast, and
far, far away across wide stretches OF
continent to the great east, there were
girls who lived very different from her
life, and she dreamed of such life for
herself.
"Oh, if | could only so away from
herel" she cried out, almost as one cries
out for help" IL could only go down
to San francisco and go to school there
for q single yearl All, if only had
$500"
Suddenly there was a step-not of a
man, but horse-on the bank behind
her, and then some one spoke. She
knew the voice without looking up. 1t
was Pete Larrabee, fellow who lived
down on Hahnemann's plantation, two
miles along the trail. He sometimes
rode by He had not heard her last
words at all yet strangely enough his
own we're a repetition of them.
Five hundred dollars, Sac" said he,
$500 in gold Dye want to earn it
Theirs yer chance" and he threw down
to her bit of paper crumpled into
ball. H., =, ,... 100. ..
She picked it up. and slowly unfold
ing it, ran her eye over its contents:
$500 REWARD.
The above amount will be paid for in
formation leading to the arrest, dead or
alive, Of Walter Somers who has worked
for some time past on Maxwell's ranch.
Said Somers is about IL years old and
81 feet high. rather good looking, with
light, curly hair, blue eyes and light
moustache. When last seen he had on
black SLOUGH hat, gray business suit,
with blue flannel shirt and boots with
red tops marked with the makers name.
The name of the county sheriff was
signed at the bottom of the bill. Saora-
mento, having glanced it through, looked
up.
Hes been stealth horses" ex-
claimed Peto. "Got off last night with
four of Maxwell's best somewheres.
That reward won't do much good,
though. The Regulatorsll lssso him
and string him up long fore the law'll
git started. They're havin' meetin'
now up at the G1rlch. tell We they
are mad. They'll make quick work II
they ketch him. Yer fathers there.
Ye needn't look for him home afore
night, MUCH a, d.,
.lf x.,a..I L.,
uaan rode on. and presently Sacramento
took up her pail, and with the sheriff's
bill still in her hand went slowly up the !
bank and across the trail toward the
house, thinking very seriously about
the $500 all the while.
IL was some hours after this, and the
afternoon sun was going down behind
the tops OF the mounteins, that Sacra-
mento, having finished her homework,
was preparing TO sit down on the porch |
10 do her sewing, when she was met in
the doorway by young man she had
never seen before. And yet he was no
stranger. The girl knew him instantly,
although the SLOUGH hat was pulled |
down over the faxen hair and blue eyes,
and the gray pants, torn and muddy, |
had been drawn out OF the boot-legs so |
as TO no longer allow the red tops OF the |
boots with. the owners name to be seen.
II was the horse-thief
She did not. however, express any
surprise as she saw him. She was ac-
customed to the sight of rough, evil
men and at the first glance she had
felt that this one could not be either
very wicked orvery dangerous. He was
not much more than a lad, and had an
a,r of yantianess and yood ly,aedino